scholarly journals Science networking: role of online encyclopaedias

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Natasa Jermen ◽  
Zdenko Jecic
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Technology Research ◽  
Specific Component ◽  
Global Context ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scientific Infrastructure ◽  
National Technology

This paper discusses the role of online encyclopaedias as a specific component of the scientific infrastructure, using the example of the Croatian encyclopaedistics. The functionalities of digital media generated new epistemic characteristics of encyclopaedias by transforming them into the active platforms for dissemination and generation of new knowledge. Thanks to their role in synthesis, networking and generation of knowledge, online encyclopaedias might be applied to history of science and technology research, in which multi-layered, interdisciplinary approach is obligatory. The recently initiated open-access Croatian Encyclopaedia of Technology and its role in elaborating the field’s knowledge are described. This encyclopaedia is the framework for the development of the Portal of Croatian Technology Heritage, which will serve as a platform for networking and sharing information from various sources. The portal will contribute to the development of research in history of technology, but also to the revalorisation and the sustainability of the national technology heritage and the positioning of Croatian technology in the global context.

scholarly journals Shaping Business Managers’ English in BBA

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-109
Author(s):  
Ramji Timalsina
Keyword(s):  
Technical Writing ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Business Communication ◽  
Business Managers ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Business Administrators ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theory Of Language

This article analyses how the current course of English in Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Tribhuvan University has used interdisciplinary approach in teaching English for business communication to would-be business administrators. To prepare the background and methodology of the analysis, the history of such courses in the global context is reviewed and certain parameters are devised based on B.F. Skinner’s theory of language shaping. It is found that the course has maintained the international standard and so is appropriate for aspiring business managers. The integration of language, literature, technical writing skills and business management related contents has made the course useful and difficult to handle at the same time. Active and motivated participants of both the course instructor and the learners is necessary to make the course successful with the achievement of the objectives the curriculum devised.

scholarly journals From Topos to Oikos: The Standardization of Glass Containers as Epistemic Boundaries in Modern Laboratory Research (1850–1900)

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kijan Espahangizi
Keyword(s):  
Measurement Errors ◽  
Glass Container ◽  
Laboratory Research ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Experimental Glass ◽  
Physico Chemical ◽  
Strong Focus ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scientific Infrastructure

ArgumentGlass vessels such as flasks and test tubes play an ambiguous role in the historiography of modern laboratory research. In spite of the strong focus on the role of materiality in the last decades, the scientific glass vessel – while being symbolically omnipresent – has remained curiously neglected in regard to its materiality. The popular image or topos of the transparent, neutral, and quasi-immaterial glass container obstructs the view of the physico-chemical functionality of this constitutive inner boundary in modern laboratory environments and its material historicity. In order to understand how glass vessels were able to provide a stable epistemic containment of spatially enclosed experimental phenomena in the new laboratory ecologies emerging in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, I will focus on the history of the material standardization of laboratory glassware. I will follow the rise of a new awareness for measurement errors due to the chemical agency of experimental glass vessels, then I will sketch the emergence of a whole techno-scientific infrastructure for the improvement of glass container quality in late nineteenth-century Germany. In the last part of my argument, I will return to the laboratory by looking at the implementation of this glass reform that created a new oikos for the inner experimental milieus of modern laboratory research.

scholarly journals Beyond Remediation: The Role of Textual Studies in Implementing New Knowledge Environments

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Galey ◽  
Richard Cunningham ◽  
Brent Nelson ◽  
Ray Siemens ◽  
Paul Werstine
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Information Management ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Textual Studies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital World ◽  
New Knowledge

This article considers the role of textual studies in a digital world and reviews the work of a particular group of digital textual scholars. Specifically, the article examines the work of the Textual Studies team at the Implementing New Knowledge Environments project (INKE.ca), a group of digital textual scholars working on user experience, interface design, and information management with the goal of better understanding how reading is changing in the context of digital media.  INKE’s work rethinks what the book can become and aims to generate prototypes to be shared on an open-source basis with the public.

Asian Americans on Television

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Yeh Cheung ◽  
Kent A. Ono
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Asian American Studies ◽  
Yellow Peril ◽  
Digital Convergence ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dream Research ◽  
Tv Shows

For the vast majority of TV history, Asian Americans have played a minimal yet nevertheless infamous role. From the “yellow peril” to the “model minority,” racial stereotypes have been used to characterize Asians and Asian Americans on the television screen. In the rare instances when Asian American actors did appear, they either were in minor roles or as figures from a bad racist dream. Research on Asian Americans on TV comes from many disciplines and cuts across multiple fields such as media studies and Asian American studies. This article discusses the early history of Asian Americans on TV, traces notable figures in contemporary television, and concludes with the role of digital convergence and the development of delivery and recovery platforms. It also provides an overview of scholarly literature written about Asian Americans on TV, including articles and books written about Asian American TV shows, the history of Asian American TV representation, and research on TV and digital media, including YouTube and other transmedia convergence cultural materials.

Celts, Romans, Britons

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
British Identity ◽  
Classical Reception ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Site ◽  
Classical Cross

This interdisciplinary volume of essays examines the real and imagined role of Classical and Celtic influence in the history of British identity formation, from late antiquity to the present day. In so doing, it makes the case for increased collaboration between the fields of Classical reception and Celtic studies, and opens up new avenues of investigation into the categories “Celtic” and “Classical”, which are presented as fundamentally interlinked and frequently interdependent. In a series of chronologically arranged chapters, beginning with the post-Roman Britons and ending with the 2016 Brexit referendum, it draws attention to the constructed and historically contingent nature of the Classical and the Celtic, and explores how notions related to both categories have been continuously combined and contrasted with one another in relation to British identities. Britishness is revealed as a site of significant Celtic-Classical cross-pollination, and a context in which received ideas about Celts, Romans, and Britons can be fruitfully reconsidered, subverted, and reformulated. Responding to important scholarly questions that are best addressed by this interdisciplinary approach, and extending the existing literature on Classical reception and national identity by treating the Celtic as an equally relevant tradition, the volume creates a new and exciting dialogue between subjects that all too often are treated in isolation, and sets the foundations for future cross-disciplinary conversations.

scholarly journals Innovative ecosystem as an organizational form for accumulating and scaling new knowledge in the industrial revolution era

KANT ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-78
Author(s):  
Dmitrii Stepanovich Shevchuk
Keyword(s):  
Concept Formation ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Schematic Representation ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Governments

The article is devoted to the study of the history of the "innovation ecosystem" concept formation and provides a simplified schematic representation of the system as five interacting modules. Innovations are assumed by national governments and companies as a source of long-term sustainability. In the past decade, there has been an increased interest in identifying approaches that would accelerate the development and deployment of innovations. The attention of the academic and business communities representatives to the innovation ecosystems underlines the fact that it is ecosystems and IT platforms that implement them that are the most promising candidates for the role of an organizational structure for the accumulation and scaling of new knowledge in the era of the industrial revolution.

scholarly journals Towards a Different Knowledge: the Knjiženstvo Database and the Digitisation of Materials

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Biljana Dojčinović ◽  
Ana Kolarić
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Educational Levels ◽  
The Core ◽  
Digital Database ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The Creation

The first part of this paper introduces the concept of digital humanities and the phases that some researchers note in the development of the humanities in new, digital media, as well as the role of digital humanities in the promotion of the marginalised literatures, particularly that written by women. The core example is the digital database Knjiženstvo, certain segments of which contain not only the data on the texts, but the digitised texts as well. In this paper, we pose the question on how databases can be involved in the creation of new knowledge at all educational levels. To this effect, we necessarily expand certain segments of the database to include those publications on which they already contain information. In relation to this, it has been observed that one of the greatest problems is the part of the database dealing with the periodicals – both women and feminist – and therefore, the second part of the paper is dedicated to this topic. We first analyze the terms women and feminist magazines, and afterwards, we consider the ways in which the materials from these periodicals could be gathered, classified and connected.

scholarly journals Liminal Fiction: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Researching, Writing and Disseminating an Archival Novel about the Violent Past

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Penny Claire Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Visual Artists ◽  
Mass Graves ◽  
History Of

This article explores the concept of liminal fiction, a new literary genre that takes on the challenge of narrating human rights in the sphere of transitional justice. Liminal fiction makes porous the boundaries between literature, law, history, art, and the archive. Using the work of contemporary visual artists who explore the art of forensics, and ground-breaking research methodologies adopted by social and forensic anthropologists, this article analyses the idea of researching and fictionalising a new memory paradigm, one rooted in the visual imagery of disinterred remains. It suggests that establishing a creative synthesis between interdisciplinary research and writing a work of fiction is a means to open up new avenues for narrating the history of the missing. This is partly achieved through a re-configuration of the role of writer and reader as co-curators, charged with the task of shifting through a multi-layered narrative that links the exhumation of mass graves in Spain in the 2000s with experiences in the country's postwar diaspora and the 'Indignados' demonstrations and occupations of 2011. Further, it becomes possible to consider alternative methods of 'publication' and dissemination of a work of liminal fiction — part-archive, part-book, part-installation — in creative collaborations with 'new musuems of space and emotion.'**This refers to a term used by economist and campaigner Susie Symes to evoke the significance of memory sites such as 19 Princelet Street, London, where she is Chair of Trustees. 

REZEKNE CHILDREN MUSIC SCHOOL (1949-1956): ROUTINE OF AN EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT AND FUNCTIONS IN COMMUNICATION WITH SOCIETY

2016 ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Valda Caksa
Keyword(s):  
Music Teachers ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
Music School ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Educational Establishment ◽  
History Of ◽  
Soviet Ideology

The goal of the article is, applying the interdisciplinary approach in the analysis of historical documents and stories about memories, to find out the most important features in the history of Children’s Musical School of Rezekne (1949-1956) managed by Jānis Ūsītis, describing also the personalities of the most important music teachers and composition of pupils.As the soviet ideology prohibited individuals from the role of a free social doer, believing it to be the an easily customizable for the needs of the reforms defined by the elite, the main attention in the article is paid to the everyday life of school staff and its functions in communication with society. The article is methodologically based on the historical analysis of discourse. 

scholarly journals The Changing Role of the Educational Video in Higher Distance Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfram Laaser ◽  
Eduardo Adrian Toloza
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Educational Video ◽  
Video Content ◽  
History Of ◽  
Presentation Formats ◽  
Changing Role

<p class="3">The article argues that the ongoing usage of audio visual media is falling behind in terms of educational quality compared to prior achievements in the history of distance education. After reviewing some important steps and experiences of audio visual digital media development, we analyse predominant presentation formats on the Web. Special focus is put on recent development of new ways to generate graphics and to create animation sequences, as well as on the video presentation formats used in MOOCs. We conclude that the "new" features are in no way disruptive innovations in distance education and that the potential of video has not been sufficiently exploited. Adequate incentives to use these media for collaborative learning have not been provided and student-generated video content is at present just starting to be considered useful in instructional design.</p>

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